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Agency stole bestselling author's book, used AI to relaunch as their own
Key takeaways
- The polished site includes everything you d expect from a publisher s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon.
- The book s original photo-collage illustrations made by Koenig and several other artists are conspicuously missing.
- A banner at the top of the homepage encourages visitors to Generate your own words using AI – give your sorrows a voice!
Last week, a Meta Filter member posted a link to what appeared to be a new website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig s decade-long project to make a dictionary of made-up words for emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express.
The polished site includes everything you d expect from a publisher s promotional book site: an author biography, press mentions, and links to buy the book on Amazon.
Strangely, it also includes the entire text of the book, from its opening 800-word foreword to a complete archive of all 311 neologisms, with their accompanying definitions, etymology, and short essays, all penned by Koenig.
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